Stop: While you are contemplating packing that Christmas tree away until next year. Think about leaving it up until the 7th of January…
In Russia we have just finished putting our trees up and are getting ready for the holidays of all holidays. The Russian New Year and then the Russian Christmas…
You see Santa (Ded Moroz) has not come to town in Russia…
Russians use this time of the year to go all out on the New Year. I heard a crazy figure like “Russians will drink 1.5billion liters of Alcohol this New Years…?” and to recover, they get a whole bunch of days off… (Link to the insanity!)
Now that figure seems a little bit much, but if they really drink anywhere near that. Then I know why they take off over a week every year at this time… 
The snow was coming down like crazy and I found a group of little kids decorating this New Year tree in the picture above. They ran a way when I pulled out the camera… 
I thought it was beautiful…
So call your tree a New Year Tree and leave it up for a few more days.
The Russians do…
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